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TOWANTIA, PA.
s•ettli ot the First "iint'itial
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Bank, °Secs, onp soat ti :les for the trays
or a geuerat bankleg Litbiness.
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/..ammable ternis, V raeala,serveo at all hours
tlf-tera at tthlilesalo and retail. feht'f7.
'FAG LE HOTEL,
(SOUTII SIDE ITIILIC SQUARE.)
This. nen-known boanq has been thoroughly ren
bevitefl and ref tirell throughout, and the proprie
for is now o t. to offer first-class acrommoda
Limo to the tethqe, on the Moht reasonable terms
E. A. JESNIStih.
'rots:vitt:l. May:, 1573.
MEMO
(oNrrltt EVI:nrEAN PLAN,)
CORNER MAIN & WAtiIIINGTON STEEETS
TONCAI 4 ,:I)A, PA
This large. commodious and elegantly-furnished
li-me bus Just !wen opened to the trawling public.
The proprietor has sparod neither pains nor expense
la Making hie hotel first-class in all Its appoint
or mtis s awl respectfully solicits a share of public.
pit; onigo. MEALS. AT ALL ft 4 ) I.ULS. Terms
to suit the .11mei. Lai go stable attached.
W M. H %N ay Puorninkon.
Tuv:lll.l3,
THE CENTRAL ROTEL,
ULSTER, PA.
The underrlgned having taken Tiosseaslon
of tne als.ve hotel, respectfully solicits the patron
age of hls old friends and the puhlle generally.
auglG-tf. M. A. YOUltEriT.
COODRICH & HITCHCOCK., Publishers.,
VOLUME XL.
Th'• to:km.lllgt« ern svrttleti t y Itayard nty-
Itn s,.t eral.y,l, ago. It t. very.
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mmger ?
EdithlT Plea-at mi‘ neve of le Iteai• me a. E.tith
.11 1,2; M. I - . A
:upp,e Out: a son MVO grown .ere there IL the
tuyNelt iu him 1 was a tin "my murk
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:.11ould eure, and certainly inure a
N't.
A daughter; beside., in the house; hay, let there
Wt. Call that !WWI' bt6,
bat OP/74., to /be Most mlglit alnr !tart
MIIMIZiI
t.ll,l2glnt, uhp•n a twigii`Jor's idle or his 'cf)I1(1
TOW A N UA, PA
linVe Ito but. uo~c=2 call
II seemed to,l•ts?ess tltcm Sttll, owlet the ridges
And Nhare a Nisart: In a lift. IN, SUlllehow, a differ
cut thing
From tiretiet'ty lieht by'ileeil, and the riches that
n't
,tatie
I feel so elou In the Meast—l think It must be the
I'm tlryhir, up like a brunt: when the woods have
I.mm cleared around ;
YOlrre 51)r , lt /32115 t ahV4yi run; you araf used to the
sight . an.l
Itut it ,hrin ks• tta ther'F's only left a st?ny rut. In
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There's i nothing to do but to take the days as they
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tome and go,
And not to worry with thoughts that nobody likes
to !Slow; ,
For people so seldom i r k of the thhigs they - limit
to know.
There's times when tile way Is plain and bvery
th!a% neatly right,
Awl-then of a 1.;041en cu stand like a lean with a
A bt,h s , etus oftt:fi a leant la the dusk of a falling
e&g?t.
I mu,t uv V my Huts aro stilt', the weather Is
hreeoing • •
And Min Is hurry off wlth hts plow team up_tho
- • -
w, to the village store ; I'd rather not talk with
Jane. ,
arpvt's Weekly
There is' eearcily anything,more
unfortunate for a man than the ab
sence Of Women around his
childhood -and youth. Mark Ripon
had ucvellknown such women, and I
offer this fact in palliation for his
want of faith in them.
c had been found one summer
ing on U' steps of the Foundat
SehmA Baxtersgate, Ripon ; and
as it was on the festival of St. Mark,
he had received the name of tipe
saint and the name of his native city,
and been adopted by the institution.
Wholesome food, stout clothing,
and a decent trade had been given
him by the Foundation, and . in many
respects he was felt to have done it
honor, for aftetlfty years of credita
ble citizenship, he was one of the
eathedi al vestry, sat in the Common
Council of the ancient city whiehlad
adopted him, and was said. to be
worth at least £56,000.
But there is :i . success which the
world sees little of—that of the heart
—and in this respect Mark Ripon
was the veriest pauper. Of the nurses
and' matrons Who had been around
116t000
his earliest years, he bad not one
tender memory; none of them had
fed the hunger of his heart. lie bad
no home, no mother, and no sister.
The ',school had been simply a place
in wfden to eat and to sleep and to
learn.
Unfortunately, when the lad fell in
love, it was with a pretty.fiirt infi
nitely more heartless than . himself.
But Mark's love had been cruelly de
ceived andtmocked, and he had come
out of his chagrin and sorrow with a
confirmed belief in the general and .
natural unfaithfulness of women.
Popular maxims and jests confirmed
him every day.of his idea, and like
most Englishmen, having once avow
ed this as..his opinion, every ream ,
tion of Lis own idea - was'a fresh con
firmation of it.
But he had many friends among
his own sex, Men generally spoke
or him as a crusty old bachelor, but
otherwise as a well-to-do, shrewd and
honorable fellow. Chief among these
friends was young Gcorge'Downes,
the child of the only companion his
boyhood had ever known, and his
,f:l,,erity.
JOHN REED" 3 THOUGHTS
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Tak•
Other People's Business.
He was ignorant of his parentage;
fitV
ovn gods; n. lf Mark Ripon loved
my human being, it was George
I)ownes, thc:ugh as the latter grew
tp to manhootl, he gave hiln a great
leal of anxiet* For Gerg,e pre-
A.Tred th 6 society of women, anti
wo1i:(1 not credit 1)O it ire as.,
-suranees of their universal falseness
and unworthiness.
One moonlight night, as Mark was
coming from a vestry meeting, he
net (.cone in the cathedral close,
and - on his arm wls virfbeautiful
girl." The old man looked angrily
to i d(fithtfully at the pretty fat.
el to his favorite's, The bri!rht moon
tonehol licr long, fair curls,
. ,
anti made the white veil around/them
like a glory roneu.bercti just
-melt a lovely, innocent' face lifted to
his, and he had doubt whatever
that this girl would be_
. just as raise
to George a• pretty Fanny :NI: ally
had becii to him
G TT , however, Nroula not be
persuadetl to do . 4bt her. Then Mark
otreyud to pay his vx.penses if lie
would go al)roa.l anal travel for—two
yvars ; hut George said "he had just
of a pl:ke fwkr.s Ban k, and
prtiferrol a The young man,
in Mark's Rai bent on ruining
himself, :HUI in a few weeks he cele
,iralel his weililing with :Ili elaborate
njoicin:r tlu ruilsol the: old man's
I)itterest contempt.
Geor!re fully expected that lie
would now `he ignolud, unit probably
10 -e forever any efianers of inheriting
his goilf:ither . s wealth. lint
wn, unlike the gener:.lity of then in
In:my respuct,, awl in noile
2,11:n in his to the vnung
man who 11:01 so 11....o!rautly(1isregarti
ca :ill adviei..S and entreatius.
llc rcdonblell his c:ire vter 111 M,
all(1 watehol all his 1116N - ern( n i ts with
a 'offistantly.inciTasing interd,t. In
ract, he 111 , 1 not blame tlel,rge at all :
Lc reg,ar(led Lim as one who, in 811
unfOrt unatc.hour, had fallen into the
l:>.-1, of a power that was too great
for him. lle pitieil the happy btiile-
,7 1'01 , 10, aria l'eSoNiAl as StKill :ts pus
sible to Ifds'aSe ltim fl(ftil the toils of
Ow \cum:in.:who lityl eh:tuned txml ett
slaveil
In vain George's wife smiled upon
and entertained :Mark ltipon. lie
visited her house, indeed, for it was
necessary to watch her movements ;
but neither her smile, nor songs,
nor attentions movedMiik. Ile had
gone through that delusion Once, ant
was not to be deceived again. It
.
was one great point in his taxer that
George had taken a house in sucha
situation that he could keep the
young wife under very close surveil-
lance, and he was confident that
sooner or' later he would prove her
all, that Ike belieyed women univer
sally to be
liut month after month went by,
and George was more in love than
ever. There also y
. came to the happy.
home; over the way from Mark's,
line little boy, that had been called
after him, aTI a blue-eyed girl, whom
not even Mark could not yet find in
his heart to regard:, as false andldan
gerous. lie was even venturing to
snake Mrs. Ge . orge Downes that ex
ception said to he contingent on eve
ry rule, lichen suddenly all his suspi-
clops wer4 fOfeed into active life ant
prominence.
. One day—a very wet one—a close
carriage drove up to George's house,
and Mfrs: George, heavily cloaked and
veiled, was driyen away in it.
" Very well, ma'am," said Mark,
suspiciously to himself, "we shall
see whether you confess to having
been out to-day."
• So he went over to George's, play
ed a rubber or two with his favorite,
and tried every way to induce a con
fession as to the ;drive in the rain,
but the young wife would make no
allusion to it. This was on Monda
On Thursday, at the same hour, the
e image came again, and George's
wife went away in it. The next week
lie went out . on three different days,
and twice, !he weather being line, he
noticed that she wore her very best
satin dress, the rich blue brocade
that had been one of her wedding
' The affair was beginning to look
very black to Mark, for he ha I satis:
fled himself that - George had been
told nothing whatever of these clan
destine excursions. On -the next
Monday he had a carriage in waiting,
and when-the lady went out again he
directed his driver to keep her - well
in sight. In this way be followed her
beyond the aristocratic precincts of
the city, to s a little house set back in
a . garden quite in the' suburbs. A
very handsme foreign-leoking man
met her at the Cloor, and led her with
many similes into the house.
Mark sent his carriage home; and,
in spite of the cold, patiently waited.
After an ,intezval of two- hours Mrs.
Downe's'carriage returned, the same
gentleman put her carefully into it,
and she must have driven -.at once
Loin for when Mark passed the
house she was sitting in her plain
merino tress at the window, nursing
his namesake. She ran't . o the door
and begged him to come in, but Mark
was full of his, discovery, and an
swered, gruffly, "Ask George to
-come to me after dinner ; 1 - have
something to tell him."
George beard what - his godfather
had to say, with a face half angry
and half incredulous. "It must have
been my wife's sister," he sail.
Mark labghed scornfully at such a
defense s and, moreover, stoutly as
serted that. it Was' Mrs. Downes, and
not Mrs. Downe'slsister. ii:`Come ou
Thursday, and see for yoUtself,
George." k
" If I do, godfather, it will not be
because I suspect my wife, but be,
cause I am sure to prove you wrong."
Still GeOrge thought it. singular
that he could not by the. most adroit
questioning get from Lis wife any
allusion to these mysterious visits.
At length he said : " will
ask for Thursday afternoon, and we
will go ont to AldborOugh Woods,
and get jtbe holly and mistletoe for
Christmas. What do you say?"
" I can't go Thursday; George dear;
I hive - so much to do."
" What have you to do ?" -•
"More than I can tell you. Is it
not *near Christmas; and does not that
imply all sorts of housekeeping du
ties ? But I will go with you Fri
day, dear." •
Ueorge was a littlo cross at th re-
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TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MORNING, JUNE 19, 1879.
fusal, and answered, gloomily, " No;
he had lost the wish to go now."
Then both wcrc silent, and the eve
ning was not a pleasant one. All the
next day he told himself that, he
would not go and , watch his wife
Thursday ; yet when the day came
be was sitting with his godfather at
the csiutlow
AL the usual hour the
carriage arrived, and Mrs. Downes.
With her hair as elaborately dressed
as it' she was going. to a state dinner
at the bishop's palace, ran down the
steps, and was soon driven rapidly
away. •
" Veil; godfather," he said, pleas
antly=,'" that. is Emma,certainly, and
site is very remarkably die ised ; but,
for all that, I am sur4 , she has some
good reason-for what she is doing.
believe I will wait until she tells me."
" Don't be, such a; fool, George ;
go and question 'your - servants,"
After a little reflection George
c r o ssed to his own house and rang
the hell. The housemaid seemed as
tonished at his appearance; and-when
he asked her. Where her mistresg was,
she said she had not :'l2(111 her since
she had taken her orders fOr dinner.
Then George went up to the nursery.
" Where is your mistress, Ann ?"
`• Is she nut in the parlor, sir ?"
" You know she is . uiet.. Where
did she go in the carriage ?"
Indeed, sir, it is my business to
mind :,In; children ; the mistre--;s
knows- ber own atlairs, without the
likes of me nuqhiling in them."
11e turned round impatiently-, went
hack to.Alark Ripon, and glit an ac
curate descripti o n of the house to
wieich he had traced George;
and in halt" an hour the half-curious
and half-angry husband - supped at
the pretty cottage. All was quiet
about it; there was no appearance of
company, it looked ahnost deserted
in its wintry -.: - arden.
..Ai exceediwdy lovely woman,
though evidently in frail and failing
heal4ll, opened the, door for him, say"-
in an inquiring voice, " You want
the sbmr, sar?"
'" No, I wish to see )lrs. Downes;
she is here, 1 be here '
." Alt, yes ; she is here. If you Will
please to go up one stair. 1 am so
weak. awl tired always."
She pointed to the stairs, and
George went thoughtfully•up them.
lid - way up there was a little land
ing and a door, and here he heard- a
strange musical voice, and then his
wife's merry laugh to its - observation.
It nettled George; he knocked sharp
ly, and before an- answer could be
given, opened the dour and went into
MEM
tie room. :
" Oh, George, how provoking!
What made you come, dear ?"
liis wife was sitting in all her bri•
dal finery on a little elevated plat
form, and Signor Sarti was putting
the last touches to a very lovely' nor
trait of her.
" I meant it for your Christmas
gift, George, and you have peeped
beforehand. Is r i ot that too bad ?"
" indeed it is, 'Emma." But Em-;
►im - was almost - satisfied with his'
peeping, so proudly and lovingly did
he talit her home.
" How d d you find me out,
Geoti ,, e ?"
" Oh, you are easy to find out,
Emma. Of course 1 knew if you
. went out in a carriage, that you got
the carriage at Morrel's. But how
do you come to know this French
man ?"
"You think all foreigners are
Frenchmen, George. Ile is an Ital 7
ian, anti so is his beantiful wife. Ile
came from London,to paint my lord
bishop and the cathedral, and the
signora was se,' much better here that
he resolved to spend the winter in
Yorkshire, and try and make enough
to take her home to ,Italy in -the
spring. My lord' asked the to have
my picture done, and pap} paid for
it in order to surprise you. I think,
George dear, you, had better not let
papa know you have spoiled his sur
wise."
George felt more and more sorry
and humiliate' as he looked in the
pretty, frank face, and think how
cheerfully, after all, she had taken
theforestallment of her Christmas
secret.
"I will do as you say, Emma. Has
the signor plenty of work?" •
j " Ile is - painting many of the prin- .
cipal ladies in the city: The bishOp
thinks, very highly of him. Indeed,
I have seen his lordship there at
nearly all my visits."
George let the subject drop now
as quickly as possible i to Emma; but
he talked a good deal! about it—and
in no very good temper to his god
-father. For once Mark had no ex
cuse- for his suspicious. He was
quite awed by the fact that he had
dared - to think wrong of' interviews
which - the bishop had arranged and
honored with his presence.
He had lost faith in his own pene
tration regarding the sex, and George
! and Emma were quietly at some pains
to convince him that good and true
womerii arc the rule, - and not the ex
ception.
And though I cannot describe ex
laetly how it came about, I know that
the' next Christmas Mark was the
;gayest old bachelor in Ripon, and
'opened the festival ball ut George's
house with Signor Sarti's handsome
sister-the very same ladOvhorn the
bishop •himself, very soon _afterward,
made Mrs. Mark Ripojn..
gun MIXED THOSE CIIII.DREX UP.
.—A young Jwvish lady of a rich and
respected fami y was recently on the
point of being married near Cologne,
in Germany, !hen a peasant women
entered and forbade - the ceremony.
She said twenty yearn before she had
been the nurse of the child now sup=
posed to be the bride, but bad acci
dently .-rolled over .upon . - it and
smothered it ithile sleeping. ' Fear ,
ing punishment, she substituted her
Own infant, . and allowed it subse
quently to be taken_ iron' her. "Of
_course I am mup obliged for the
•ed
ucation and rea ing the child has re
ceived," said t e woman, " but you
can understand that as a good Chris
tian I could never allow my daughter
to be Married-to 'a Jew." • .
Noun s•rows. Herald:: It is now fast.-
ionable to take opera-glasses to church ;
and the day is not far distant when the
membeM of Mr. Talmage's Tabeinacle
will go out between acts to get a liquid
clove to chew.
• •
REGARDLESS OF )}:NUNCIATION FROM AN y QUARTER
110 V E I. A N t. TOWN,II
Mcr4ter.,,n lingns3g„?
wie 3, 1,79,
Efirron : 4 has
_been nearly
et•u months since' I 1(.11,
nia, and dm imp; that• time have trav
eled over a good many hundrod miles
and finally lodged up in the above
township, in the Northwestern part
of McPherson county, Central Kan
sas,' I have observed considerable
out Lave taliCn some notes, which I
impose to spread out in the foiln of
a letter to your worthy paper. I will
•:ty in- tiny' outset th:tt the western
ninil is e'-tiaus:t•e, ns pione to exag
reratibn the st)arks aro to ay up-
bard, c u n.:equ e utly what, rOial,te
iu
formatiou you get Inuir,t, Lc fpun a
Ouse and careful invc*tigation of
your own, giving such credit,' to the
stories you hear as in your judgment
they deserve. The great 14:idol-ado.
if not just there, is a little farther
west, where milk and honey flow pro
fusely, awl none but the sinzganl
need want or go hungry. This dis
ease or exa g giTat iOl.l chronic
amo - rig the Western 'Wilily, and the
. 00ly reason I can give for it is the
invigoratin:T climate and the ficialf`.
brec:rs we have on-these'great plains
of the West. I regard Mcl'l.erz4on
county, for- agricultural piirwies, the
best county I let \ e evor visitetl iu
R:. n=a,.
unitimnity of.sojl and better a.iaptid
!O evreals ilw.n any I lu to sten ; `'_et
I (10 not wish to be 1:n(1(1r:quid
saying it is the Ehlorelo of KNier:is;
fot the counties in Central Kan-its,
running north.to - the line of the State
;ld south to the southern line Of the
State, iti all >a l to 15 very ! rooll
deed for ngrienlturni — purposes. There
is this county lnit very little or
w..11 : 0„ , may called steril uloom land;
arly every 'limiter si•etion ivill
make a ~OMI farm, and I think at no
distant future will he regarded one
of the first oninties in Kniim:rq. 1
lacks sonic of the natural resutirci...s
sticli as tiiiilit•V i and coal, hut, lht e
will l.e of r. owe by the grow Alt of
artilicial timber and railroad facili-
ties for shipping coal, should it not
Ins found in the county. S tune is
plenty, water 'good, and cLinate
health•. The land is undulating Suf
ficiently to cause t natural drainage
of all surplus water, which is the
lcgitinutte cause . of ague and fever
and many other diseases of the We it.
The :stagnant pools of ‘Nater, the
Muggish streams that abounil in a
level cOinitty, breed disease , as rat
ural as marshes breed niiwiinitc6s
and lizards. There is no dQulit a
great deal of hind in Soithern K•in-
Sas, at least alonglhe vailey of the
Adzansas river, will be cursed with
this poisonous mataria,.causing sick
ness and death. While this county
is drained ttrough the chancel of the
Arkansas river, yet it is IN !ling and
healthy, and is what would he terme
by those MonfT•the river second ho
ton) the best rand in Kansa,:, in in
judgment. While I do ncjt thin . k
Central-Kansas, goterally speaking,
as good for.corn as the bottoms of
the Kaw or the Missouri river, yet
for small grains- it is better. They
raise fine corn here and even we . sti n
Rice county, but den't claim it is as
good-for corn as farther East. The
natural grass is shorter than farther
Elst, and is conshlerably mixed with
buffalo grass that you find in abum
ante farthur West. Some of the early
settlmi claim that there was but very
little of the natural prairie grass here
some years ago—all bunch or buffalo
grass ; to-day but little of the buffalo
glass is seen, and a heavy stand of
prairie has taken its place. -
Wlipe there are many things in a
frontier life repugnant to an Eastern
man who is accustomed to the refine
ments and luxuries of Eastern socie
ty and Eastern,cookery, those who
arc settled here are bolstered up with
the thought' that all this_ will be,
changed soon—much sooner than
they were in the East., where refine
ment and luxury abounds. The corn- 1
plaint of bad cooking, which is wide-,
spread in the West, -is not without?
cause. The hotels of Western Kan
:4lS ate the poorest excuse for public
houses of any place I ever traveled.
There is nothing cooked but that
would be better and more palatable
if it had not been touched. Ed. Dean
and myself stopped at a : certain so
called hotel ; his rooms were known
as Bull-pen No. 1,2, and so on. We
were taken to our
: room, the two firstrooms not being Sully occupied, he
saying to us, " Here is' Bull-pen No.
1 and Bull-pen No. 2, take your
choice." We were not long in decid
ing. We turned down the clothes,
and the color of the sheets made me
think of what I saw in a certain ho
tel. A gentleman went into a rude,
dirty-looking corner to wash his
hands and face—something highly
important in this dusty country ; af
ter getting through- washing he look
ed for the towel, examining it closely
to find a clean place • failing, he re
marked to the man of the house that
the towel was'-pretty dirty ; his an
swer was, that for the last two days
more than .200 had wiped on that
towel, and lie was the first one that
had foind fault! .We turnod fbr
the night; had not been there long
before I was satisfied we had jumped
some other party's claim. The con
test was fierce and supremacy doubt
ful, but before morning I had decided
to abandon the undertaking. Morn
ing came, revealing the fact of the
wisdom -of our conclusions. We were
outnumbered by scores, and resolved
.not to contest another claim without
a closer examination. The sound of
a large plantation bell, in front of
the hotel on a.. long pole, warned, us.
that breakfast was ready,. and we
scrambled-with a hundred or more to
the table. A sort of breakfast was
prepared ; Bread as hard as Pharaoh's
heart—it defied my. limited knowl- 1
edge of geology - to analyze it; pork.
so strong that it would` walk alone,
and coffee as riley :IS the Missouri
river, and in the langulge of Beadle,
" I forced s scant ration of bread and
coffee, but it was a . signal triumph of
a catholic stomach ever protesting
nose." This want of culinary knowl
- ,edge is widespread in the West. .
Good cooking is an exception, and
bled cooking the general rule. But
this .pioneer population, together
with this want of culinary knowledge,
is. to give place to a more refined
==l
OUR WESTERN LETTER.
There si•cins to h e !nor,
7 ):(Efittltf--
~.,,,. t_.. - _ ..5.... t
state of society, and a better knowl
edge of the science of cookery.
In. conclusion, I will say I have
digressed- a little from my style of
writing for your worthy paper, being
forced to it by.the continued relu•Li
tion of had to worse. I will promise
in the future not to devote so much
sp.lec to - this style of letter•writing.
• C. P. Nicuot.s.
A BEAUTIFUL TRUTH
"TILE NAME oF JESI's; CHRIST."
( . 01:1).1111 , 11
Our faithful and interesting:corres
pondent, W. 1•'. Hilton, of Hartford,
writes to us that he has just discov
ed that the initial letter of the words
composing the sentences," Christ hilF,
risen, I shall triumph," are contain
ed in the word "Christ" thus :
C hrist
II as
I. isen
Shall
riumpli
-llaving received this beautiful idea
from our correspoinlcut, we came to
the eonelm-ion that it sl) much Wag
contained in the name Christ, the
word Jesus must contain something;
in the same line to lit into it, and re
membering the prtssage " Ile shall be
called Jesus lii-caus'e lie 'shall save
LliS people from their sins," we ac
cordingly write :
.1 C,11..1
E pl'i'SSi" 4
S 1 Vatioll
• 112,0
S inn. ri
The whole matter may he the:
iineeil in the form of n
HMI
1 . .11/re.'Srd .'1,11 . (11111;1 - Pi 1110 .... S in
711 - 0 h t. 7.4 lbenf,pre
sha.ll Iri Hit ph. 'llk is one. way o
teaching the !Ltopel. , Let others in.
'prove nuon it in-churehe:, and
d 100 1 ,4 . TO those who I wlieve in
the identity of the English speakiw
races with the ten lost tribes of Israel
there may be somethin , peetiliarl3
instructive to them in this discovery
because from no other known lan
page can thctScript nral deelaratiku
of the meaniirg of tie name ut J Csu
Christ b} - t similarly writtt n.
1=1:=1=1
Tu E New York Pivu prints Ole fol
lowing anecdote of Gene'ral Shields:
ClenerAl Shields once had a diffi
culty with Abraham Lincoln Which
resulted in preparations for a•duel.
Shortly after Ids return from - the
Mexican war, a newspaper in Illi
nois, where ie lived, published an
article ti. at displeased him very
much. Ile called upon the.editor,
and said it was offensive, and insist
ed upon knowing the name of the
author. The editor" asked time' to
consider, and meanwhile consulted
Mr. Lincoln, informing him that the
writer of the article, was a young
woman. "Oh, I'll settle that," said,
Lincoln. "'fell Shields I am per
sonally responsible for it."
This was-enough for Shields, and
he immediately challenged Lincoln
to mortal combat. llroadswords were
chosen as the weapon most likely to
place them on an 'vial footing. The
proceedings were conducted with
great secrecy, and in order to have
the amusements to themselves a
bushwood corpse Was chosen for the
encounter. But friends had followed
unobserved and. came up in time to
catch the belligerents in the act of
clearing a space for the fight by hew
ing down the brushwood with their
swortls. The ludicrousness of the
thing was soon made apparent, and
the affair ended in good humor.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT LOCOMO
TIVEs.—A locomotive, traveling at the
ordinary rate Of thirty miles an hour,
performs forty-four feet per second,
and at; seventy-five miles an hour 105
feet per second. Two objects near a
tarveler, a yard apart, pass his eye
in the thirty-fifth_ part of a- second.
When two trains having this speed
pass each other, the relative velocity
will be seventy yards per second ;
and, if one of the trains were seventy
yards long, it would flask by in •ti
single second. To accomplish this,
supposing the driving-Wheels to be
seven feet in diameter, the piston
must change its direction in the cyl
inder ten times in - a - second. But
there are two cylinders, and the
mechanism is so regulated that the
discharges "of steam are alternate.
There are, therefore, twenty discharg
es of steam - per second, at equal in
tervals, . and these twenty exhausts
divide ti Second into twenty equal
parts, eatt 4 h puff having a twentieth
of a "seeded between it and that which
precedes -and . follows it. The • ear,
like the eye, is liniited in the rapidity
of its sensations; and, sensitive as
that organ is, it is not capable of dis
tinguishing sounds which succeed
each other at intervals of the twenti
eth part of a second. ' '
THE EVIL OF A BAD TEMPEIL-A
bad temper is- a curse to the posSessor ;
and its influence is most deadly
wherever it is found. It is allied to
martyrdom to be obliged to -live with
one of a complaining, temper. To
hear - one eternal round of complaint
and murmuring, to have .every pleas
ant thought "scared away by their
evil spirit, is a sore trial,. It is like
the sting of a scorpiona -perpetual
nettle; destroying your peace, render
ing life a burden. Its. influence is
deadly; and the purest and sweetest
atmosphere - is contaminated into a
deadly' miasma wherever this evil
genius prevails. It, has been- said
truly, that while we ought not to let
the bad temper of °tilers influence us,-
it would be as unreasonable to spread
a plaster of - Spanish flies upon the
I skin, and not expect it to draw, as to
think of a „family not suffering be
cause of the bad temper of any of its
inmates. One string'out of tune will
destroy the music of an instrument,
otherwise perfect; -.0 if all the mem
bers of a church, neighborhood -and
family do not cultivate a kind and
affectionate temper, there will be .dis
cord and every evil work. ,
Puck: We flatter ourselves see are ex
tremely liberal when we say a thousand
dollars' otgood of man after his death, to
whom, living,'we would not have loaned
a V.
TAE BROOK
lint je:terday thin hrel: was I , rig%t
Fel traro]pil ai the clear ItteziNght,
Tl'at w , koe‘. the path on Onerit. •!,r.
I:tit tow a hoar-e, 1 1 .31.: :11rt - 39. ft 1/ 1 1111.,
o'er It, dat k tint of 3 ,, k,
And. :o:wet with a thnfeler—hortr,
Boit , int./ elllrCiin. tierce :41.41
=
raga::; ,slid of a!, r, r. 2.L
.\:lt with 211-2,2122,22 L.
A tlnpostitt Mkt: night swept toy,
f,r a Iliii!k ;uui firm aA r.
,1111.. th , sifll,l 15...11.1714s hllO 4 ,
It reakHl Its fury cm the 1a , .. .
'll,O evil vtouL , .4 Up, ILla,t
Witli.l it: quirt-b. mw
tt. , •t.•.'i.rr i , It tliat agntrt tldi
!.1 , 1,1,,,1 as lout:.;;:)• to ;041,
H:•mg!.l-. ,p.II!N
i 1 , 1 , rat,•rs rout
As it IN
I,now of lanc a oreatzire.brfght
gt•o:lc as t h e char
tendurii,t and tl, kiintcst heart
erel :Ant a n.r
Tu art on eartti—aerni,s lift•
A ruuht. o f avh n cnefit ill strife,
With fiirres rife—
It stlrred her r.ature's in toed deep
That io•Ner11101 - 0: Arl!I slap:
Ref...rm. its rttglzed of nu•k,
4.'er ahh 1, ( for :rye CC Rh I huhlt . r
The tide,. of teldiog . , fi.•ree aiel 11,t,
Are 113 , 11141 b. I'-.am or 4.y sleet,
A ragOig of m..l.tent, 1 , 1“.
11. , ,,• - 4 E•trh, p,
/ETNA'S ERUPTION.
O.IE or TITF: TERRIFIC VOLcANp: pHE
NOMENA IN TUT; PA:sT
Many fresh lissu.rts have appearol
.lit, whol6 ja(*c llt
rOgion in a.state of Ili n:l\•.. ]te
c,•nt reports from Catania fir, to the
effect tlta: thy• or lava i> vet't•
i, sail to be strenmin ,
towaril the river Ale:Ant:lra, anal to
cc (le•tiastated the village Of Mi,,
It is pot,sible, s the ::cw York
that the eruption may. cease at
any moment; but On 'the other hand
it may lat, for months or even years.- ;
The duration and extent ,of volcanic
phenomena are absolutely inealcula-`
Me. All that experience teaches i•.:1
that when a volcano has been dor-
nant nir_ a loirg time, its eruption,
when it_comes at last. is likely to lie
a lieree one. But it may Le short as
well as fierce. like the memorable
outbreak of Vesuvius that changed
the face of the Cainv:gint and swal
lowed up Stabiab, Herculaneum and
Pompeii ; or it may be Trotraeted
like the eruption of Jurtillo, in the
Ilexican province of or
Mechuacan ' that lastea from June.
173(1, until February, 174 7 0.
I furnboldt describes this. farnOui
eruption of .lurullo as Lavin.: been
ontinuous between, the =antes Nye
have named. But its prrigress was
attended by some ebullitions of ex
tratirdinary fury.- On the night of
the 2Stii-2`.tth of ,September, 17:1o, a
scene was preseUted which for terri
fic magnificence. has perhaps not .
been surpassed in the history of the
world. It was witnessed from the
neighboring mountain of Agumaneo.
and Humboldt got his account from
those who were on the spot. He says
that the flames spouted up over, an
area nearly a league . square. The
Waters of two rivers, the San Pedro
and the Cuitimba, plunged into gap
its* rents thiit were torn through the
earth and actually disappeared.
Thousands of small volcanoeS burst
forth over a wide tract. of country
and vomited smoke and sulphurious
flames. Six large cones also sprang
up, rivalling the original crater, and
yielded torrents of fire, lava . and ba
salt.
WhirlwindS packed with colored
ashes, Ilew over hundreds of square
mileS. The earth rocked and the air
was filled with overwhelming thiiii
ders. The simple Indians, wlio, not
unnaturally, thought the end of the
world Was at hand, tied in mad terror
and confusion. It was long before
the survivors ventured -back into the
region once filled with smiling and
prolific " haciendas," but now a black
and desolated waste. Those who re
turned looked for the once familiar
rivers that watered and enriched the
surrounding plain ; they had vanish
, ed and were seen MO more. But wan
dering natives profess to this day to -
I hear the ravis.hed streams creeping.
like Pyssus in " lingering labyrinths,"
far below the surface. of the ingulfing
'earth. .
The craters of Vesuvius B. C. 1"3
iad slept for time immemorial." The
gladiators who fled from the Roman
pnetor and hid in the fissu'res' of the
volcano had no fear of nature, What
ever they might have of man. When.
they burst from their lair to release .
their leader, Spartachs, and to over
throw for a space the cruel Roman.
power, the outburst of the lava whose
track they followed, had become
.a
mere tradition: Even on that me
morable day, before the kalends of
September, when the two Plinys, the
elder who perished, and the younger
recorded, first saw the cloud over
Vesuvius theydeenied it --curiosity
only. Probably when the worthy
admiral got the.letter, further on. in
the day, praying for help, from Alec
tine, the wife of Ca sius Bassius,.
whose house was at the. foot of Ve
suvius, he thought her womanish
fears uncalled for. How were people
to believe in a catastrophe of a ,
na
ture that had scarcely been
thought of ? But tlw sad tragedy of
Stabile followed, when Pliny in -no
bly-striving to save others lost kiln.
self. '
Eruptions like that of Vesuvius,
coming at such intervals that the
broadened space is scarcely bridged
by authentic history,' are naturally.
the Most appalling. A volcano like
Heela, on the other hand, which, be.
tween 1603 and 1700 unearthed itself
twenty-three times, does not at any
rate take the world by surprise. The
terrors of Hecla, indeed, sink into in
insignificance when compared with
those of its awful neighbor, Skapta
Jokul. Iceland has been very .nit.
nutely ankaceurately surveyed and
mapped by the . Danish government,
but the region about the Skapta JO
kul constitutes an exception. There
is a tract ..of four hundred square
miles not diAineated In the govern
ment ordinance maps, .and it this
terrific region it is said no foot of
man ever intruded. Lord Dufferin
went very near the forbidden territo
ry, as his "Letters from High Lati
tudes" so graphically show. The
81.00 por Annum In Adi/ono".
space about the great voleab6 is. for
the ino't part, however, as "voi(.l of
wari.and his works-a' the p4les them=
(_.lves.- •It i, an area iteaperl to the
elowls with masses of ice awl e vi , r.
lastilir snows.
'rhe most tremendom eruption of
whielt' there is tru,tworthy •reeor(l
oecurre4
.11:1‘• of
year there sva.:.i seen throughout, that
part Of •leeland, a- Mysterious Ii ht,
fog. Early in .111110' Ive're
-light, awl. as it se, mol, apprelu-n
-sivt. trelahlings of the partit. On
th of .ttine immense pillar; of ....al,le
-inoke i._. - at here,' over 'the lofty eoun- I
try of the north, and hearing ()Lid- i
?lowly down against. the wind, wrap- ;
ped the whole district of- 'Silo - ;11
pitchy darlincss.lon the I ~t h of .1 em, !
a whirlwind of ashes swcpt ovt r 'the
entire. • country . .., Innumeralle fire
:limits, Uhl: so many demon hea , . - (nis.
now la , :lied :Ind leaped ththugli
.the
froien . hollows of the mountaim..
The river Skar,ta, one of the largest
in:lceland, having first poured d - ov,-n
vi'llie plair a volume.of fetid ivaters
mixed with, sand, like the _Mexicanrire-rs,
riC'ers, suddenly disappeared, Forty
eight in,urs afterward a prV , ligiol . l:l
mass of lava, is:suing from sofirees . to
which no one !:as been able up.peue-
Irate, came sliding down the.. .bed of
the dried-up river. . .
The channel, accordipf ,- , to Lo'rd
Duffel-ill—to whom we, - AU". ifitli 1 ted
fol. Most of these. details—wa of
great' depth :Ind breadth ; but the
fearful deln:j - e :brimmed up ;xi its
le tn i i ,, ovculowed them, and then
drove in molten masses ov, r the fa , —
of the whole country. Two occans
, ,
! oi'ulva were the pro luct ol this crap
-1 t ioM Th e t,ne that llowel:down the
i,
z-.-z;,::p! a Iva-. lifty miles long by liff.een
I wide. The other which rolled down
the Ilverfislilot, was forty mile y
::. 1 ,
1
,•ven. Wheie it, is imprisoned I , y
the imnu hi, ,- h banks of . the
r Skapta, Ilk lava is - live or sik luin
i decd Hundred „feet thick : but oil the
plain, after it emerged, ti e tilicki,
(o: the mass never e , :cu-eds one him
, drol feet. The - eruption. continue , :
until Ain,-ust, - when ,tle Plutonic
drama concluded with ' an' ei.,rth
(01 ike
The effect of this
. :1111:17.111ff pile.
II071 . 11'11(;11 CNA endea o\-or a whole year
and over an immen-c elistance. blu
ing' all' this time clouds surchar , ..e.l
'W;th cinders hung dyer Ireland. '1 hey
oce rwheltned,,,to a great-depth. tens
of tio:usands oil' acres of-fertile lands.
The Farl;e Islands, the Orkners>•and
the. She llamls were covered with vo!-
.
• .e, (Ns'. Ti.i - s,snlest , ncr. eV•vir.e.x
led to the atmosphere of En;dan- I
of Ilolland. A nuMber varil - ',us 1,.
, • ei in a l ter]. but - doubt I.r,s i n c l ti ,i in - :
many thousands of, hiunan beinzs .
aufl.e.clie hundred and fifty thousand
cattle, perished in Iceland e - Apart
front such calamities, this eruption
most have effected - some
.gigantic
physical changes, concerning which
we have seen no speculations: -,
It; would appear - first that - the pro
pelling force-Within the crater of the
•Skapta. Jokul must have been exerted • : - .
"ll !fEN (10 you ittend to 'go back,
at a vast depth below the external
!ltike . .'_at : ke..l. 4 .e exile of another. "If
point of egress ; ' next, .that caverns
f: I i.,... ie . 11 t o i t. ll
e t ,
, tiz.-fe iii t t n eii l .l G t o o d
N k ..t e i , tl -4 0uNii i dic tl ie
of enormous enormous extent must . have -been
Ire
left by the masses' which were ex- n
land of more beTfole Flare thiscan i n e - -
polled ; and, finally, that as the bulk try•'-' ' .. .. . -
Of
. .lava, boulders and other 'ejecta 1, j: NEW London Rl...gram : What with ar- •
Lscnic in Ilii:mis cheese and maltese cats ~
IlOwed a long distance toward the
`as a . sal:tit:fee l•-. 1. malt irrbeer, .it ,seems
south, • and reprerented ninny Cubic llartlly life to lunch abroad or tarry long
miles of solid matter when Tool, a at the la-er. , • _
-change must - have been wrought in , v
...ontzt's.rer.vx . Thrt '1 • ii i Dn e a ' n i b, a u i r r y s - - •
the position toward the pt .. .. Lions '':rtratep, when arrested, oe ' l l- •
centre of gravity of a - considerable 1 .4 pants, twelve- vests and twelve coats.
portion of the mass of -the earth. And ',v.t he complained of being ticated , t
Whether this movement was of suf- ("illy. It is supposed - be was a wander
:cm. i.w- eel:.--clotb'.' , t •
, store. •
foment relative importance to produce ' -`' • • .
11 :l e •wo ,, d i ar i ki . es f were i vaurning' their coitr
anything more than a local influence- -
we must leave tO scientists tei`deter- said one. -' ."
Le e n, .7:kliio):ltilV)te b i l l'' ,} I- O i llt t tic: - I
mine. In any case the subject. pre- 'feared to loan me A dollar?" "No; Ju
sents an interesting, field of: inquiry. Ins, I isn't feared to loan . you a dollah,
but I dce . s hate to part•wid an .olo:fren'
This stupendous eruption devas- !
forebbar.:- . .
tatell territory at a long distance,
he gale
DoSrox telegraph clerk - smiled when
but Mount Etna is much nearer to
wife
:,
,I.nt
a mats a tis a child
ti tlns i n i ties burn,
-front his
man and his works than the Skapta
eJokul, and there -is apparently dan- long by-two feet wide," but the' itti
maeu feet
that Catania and even Messina derstoed it meant that he should buy au
t
may be gravely injured. 'I o protect illuminad Easter text.
e .- -
the former city a wall was fw - merly AN ni‘prt•eiatWe_ mind can throw a -
t woi Id ed . .o.tlit,-; iii
. a very ordinary seati : ,
built quite sixty -feet high . ; . and • vet _ 1 e *.:. , -s ;i ' n ' u s t a t :d Lc, w l i e h aning over the
the lava has been known to surmount 4 r e i t e • i e ' e t. in
this wall and .to pour a cascade of " she is dead._ .S.be ß) ( l l .l ied j t ust a as lle s i l g te hb g o e r li..
liquid lire into' the streets of the city. wady fir the smilig clean. It is . terrible."
S)nce . the first recorded eruption of " How sublimely ethereal :" murmured '
Miss de Pinkey, as she leaned over the
Etna., named by Diodotus ,`,-.l,'iculus,
there have been seventy considerable ""ail of tl e line steamer that plies between .
s. t tild e
i.
. i lessitea, and watched the •
n..
outbreaks of-the monntai . That of N' l: ' e t - ie
it•
1G ,a was preceded by an earthquake " li -- ow just tooi ' r ' e r m lb e e l a ,T o s L i s o zy n . rn -tl l l „ Q n lN in 'a c l e - n " i . .t
tlnd attended by the . same phenomena I can this simply joy on a Lloyd :" '
that are reported now, namely, the A(1 F.NIT LEM A 75 addresses another :gen
opening of Many fresh chasels or elemati, whom he doesn't know, at a par
craters at different points ofthe pro ty : "This affair is awfully stupid ; let's
- .go ont. and take a-drink." "I would like •
mentor}., . to go out and do it," was the reply,. " but
- The eruption overwhelmed - four- - I eimn't itmye very well," "Why not:"
teen ' . towns and- villag,es,. some of " Why, yen see, Itun g the 0113 WLO is giv
'them - at _a great distance from the ing the patty."
volcano. It is a - remarkable fact that Ai: Englishman was boasting to a Tan
eruptionskee that they had.a brick in the •British
have -sometimes occurred
Mnseum which wattonee awned by Lice- -
at or about the same time froM vol- rut•• Oh,
that ain't nothin' " • retorted d
canoes fat distant frofromeach' other, the Yankee ; "in the museum' In - 1 . ;,5t l
giving rise to an opinion held by some they've got the lead pencil that Noah
•
physiologists that a
.subterranean :used to cheek off.the animals that went
into the ark."
connection existed between the moun
" Dor :Pinafore' - expression - waS• a
tains. The - fact . that Vesuvius is re- t
tmsance,•' remarked a Teutonic
.gentle
ported to be in lively and - increasina
eruption at the present moment gives n a l ‘ a - l e i n t e o r a sc g , m ei ; i :i t n i . c .-,r d p jlti - t'r. I, '" u t , li V7 l°/e
Color to this theory, and lends addi- blaneArtglish A - ter:be e s- h ay : hardly, - ‘ s ‘V - C4 1s"'11 :
oflanguage
tional interest to . the voleanicsitua. sometimes, infer'," Vot kind'
Lion. - . • •
_. is dose?" . . .
Car
ttJ
and
Ilow COFFEE C.-01E TO BE U SEP.—
It, is Somewhat singular to trace the
manner in which arose the use of the
common beverage of coffee, without
which - few persons, in any.half or ful
ly civilized country in the world,
make breakfasts At the time Colum
bus.eliscovered America, it had never
before been known or used; It gre . *- .
only .in Arabia and Upper Ethiopia.
The discovery of . its nse as a bever
age is ascribed to the superior of a
monastery in Arabia, who, desirous
of preventing the monks from sleep•
ing at their nocturnal services, made
them drink the-infusion of coffee up
on the reports of shepherds, who ob
served - that their floCks - were More
lively after browsing:on the fruit of
that plant. . Its; reputation spread
through the adjaCent countries, and
in two hundred yeats - it reached Paris.
A single plant, brought there in 1714,
became the parent stock of all the
French plantations hit , the - West In
dies, • The Dutch; introduced it into
Java and' the East Indies. The - ex
tent of the consumption now can
hardly be realized. The United Stites
alone annually consume H. at the cost,
on its landing, of from fifteen to six
teen millions of dollars.
TILE CSITED STATES AS A Mili.Ea AND
Nr I",,rk
The:monk of candy manuhaetur
ed in this ec,iuntry is far greater than
is usually thought. the A rnerienns—
the wouten r mainly—eating
is sail, than all the-rest of the world
combined. NON , ' York . hits, until
eently, made tnor.t of the candy, but
now Boston is a large marinfacturer.
Within a few years • many small
houses, trt,:tly French, have §prung
u.p here, and roluce , l the price mater- -
ially.
Bry,ton lists three large inanu
faetorie;4, ernidoving some 30't
men, an* prooin•ing OVer _
Cr nimually.„ Not inure than -
one-fourth of thirds ,tonsuined in
New Englanei, the -11 , 111fti:p1.e'r going
61h-1;y ..to the provineus' :tufty the
-t.• Ilostort Lza:es altof , ether
in Ole than i,o
thing over harrek of
for the - .. i furpo-c•. Ti'-. city, it is
e,- , :imated, makes Gluon (1..".0 , 1 to
whiel; , to :Al partS of
the Union, a good dea l t of it teing, it
said, eNpoi-ted to the West
meriea, and even to Eurof,,.,
It has i; ,, en that Frcimit
cat, Ile: - .very .the -hest ; 'hut, w,!
d su.erior to -
(tut-ide font New .
York. not maell - elm]
th&r_di the P.hilinlelph; - A make
raLle. reputat'‘,:n. We are
I not. , )),_-.):•.(, jJ) ; ) 1 or
:Sweet things the Latin
nut lve have o uluch more money to•-
s lw ml that w e huy far I.OOFt th:01
I they can. ..7ilo common_ pt.ople lit
Enrolls eat very few, if any, - confer-
1 Con::: 4 ;14k1. everyll . cyl r t hew; eats it
,0 0 ,1 Our •ehillren's te•mlen,ov:
to indigysti-n Las heob
I t.;;,tir k g of ~:vvi...t.t.s; buti
e not co: - rect. fiat more candy
than ev, r, hut the
- is-slentliiy improving.
NUMBER --3
BANANAs.— I° e«. people who
rananas banging in fruit dealer,'
:=liteps (.!(- them as more ?kin a
trOpleal luxu r r. - : 'ln fact thy are,
the st-iple-attiele nr ro.A
Pin 0 1 1.1:C1%k:rid, and, aeeorling to ,
acreflutul: , dclt. a, Of bananas will
p'rotlne, as ti - inch. food - Sur - a
; ler( -4 of %NI:0V ; It is tl:e.
ease th whit lc hinninas are !Erma
the great (...clyitaele to eiviiiha-
Lion in cOuntries. -----
so easy to get a living without, wor k
tl - lat- no effort w1:11-be tna,l awl the
en-n 1Wc13!::i! 16Z}• el iatrAerablv •
, 11iftless., All that is ncedcd is to
siick a cutting into, the "ioun , i.l. It
will iNqi tfuit ;it tw,?vo 01. thin
t:L months riOlout -furtlic r
cacti plant ha ls:t to I 21. La
mthas: au i when'tlit i dli-s.clwx - n; sf
ter fruitin. ne";
.slioots up, to
ti.ko its In regions ~where
frosts m.ver bananas.are found
insil st.iges of growt . h. their
fruit every clay.and every month, in
•
the vear.
:IP. HU'
a•ti;l• ~ f a t:ivlnv at the r . nontilig ;
If,
L . . 1 ftl Clildrol, obey
.• • lorvzfelt bats, pa
said a eiri.to her father. The,
liaiul.4( tit firi,cr forh4 tNtr the inouey,
and 1;,-a :ills the long felt want.
pi::s or- yrntrs are in a
fine conditioli, , spr,
stir, if we wos:cl on us on'y
as lit to lht! as tilt in are, we'd do
.
Witt.Nr . .vt:l; a new aril startling fact is
bratielit to !it;lit in limt
.t t trtio,'; then that r"
I miry to rengi , qt, — laitly, that eve
-I..yholy Luc-a- it befo . te." -
"OUR SWEET TOOTTL.'
IMMINffI
ECOCCI
TUN. I'AOT AND-FACETIL. -
Tut: following, inscription is -copied
faun a tombstone in the English grave
yard at PeshalVar; India : "Sacred to the
memory of the . llev,°.Blanit, A, - M., who
spent seventeen . , years as a missionary
among the Afghans, and translated the
May - Writ into their language. lie was
shot by his attendant. "Well done, thou
good and faithful servant."
Plnebe (colored), do you at
tend -elturelL"' "Lois, -yes, Missus.-
Couldn't live it I didn't go to. meson'."
•••Do you have good times there?" I
guess 'WC does. We have 'tracted meetin'
grin' Cu. And last night our reintStcr"
*wited pursuns to do altar, Nvlien three
p,clm3 few'rd and we thought tlit fust
ivde, censidcriu' dc hard times." .
Tim compoSitor who was told he might,
when setting up 'a. speech, insert "loud
applause or " in order to fill out
the line, was summarily discharged when
he made : the application general unit-set
7ilp an obituary 'notice as follows : "The,
anummeZment was.made yesterday that
our highly respected citizen, Mr.
fell demP.ln the :street--(loud applause,
etc.) • •
"WELL, my - little boy," said a Somer
ville clergyman, patting a little boy on the
head, "What do yogi expect to be when
you grow' up" "Dunne," answered the
boy bashfully. "What would you like .
to 1;0 - , then r continued the pastor, ex
pecting the youngster to say he would like
to be President of the United States. But
the • .boy's ambit ion ,soared higher than
that, for ho blurted out; "I like to be a
walker, an' wa , x O'Leary:" ,
I=l